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Old Posted Jun 9, 2014, 8:14 PM
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I like the little church in-between the buildings!
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Old Posted Jun 14, 2014, 6:50 PM
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Thanks for the comments!

Here's a block dominated by a 70's office building:

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Old Posted Jun 15, 2014, 12:55 PM
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It looks great!
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Old Posted Jun 19, 2014, 10:15 PM
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The city does look nice!
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Bourne should have a 750-1,000 ft skyscraper called the Supremacy, it could be a thin curved glass tower, Shaped like this: (|o|)

And I made an accidental reference to The Bourne Supremacy.
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Old Posted Jun 28, 2014, 6:59 PM
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Thanks for the comments and Codster121, thanks for the tip

14 West Van Buren Avenue was originally built for commercial use in 1932. Coming to 21st century, it's office space was utterly outdated and the building was mostly vacant. It was converted to luxury apartments in 2007.

The building is 77 m / 253 ft tall and has 20 stories.


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oh my good lord I love this. Moooooore.
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I like those buildings!
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Just checked into Bourne - looking great as usual. The massing of the city and individual building designs are very realistic. Keep it up...
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Here's a view looking west on West Van Buren Avenue:

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Old Posted Aug 6, 2014, 10:53 PM
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Such a great city! It looks very liveable.
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these are great renders of a greatly detailed city, please, don´t ruin the renders with that ugly ass effect you used in the above image


are you still using Sketchup? Looks too detailed to be Sketchup... are those building façades 3D or are they textures (with some 3D, but mostly being detail by textures)?
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some of the best river water I have seen in modelling... how did you do it? Vellu, how much ram do you have? Are all those models with so many textures inside Sketchup? Or are you rendering several pieces of the city and joining it in post pro?



you said you get the building façades from Bing Maps... may be a foolish question, but how the hell do you map the reflective areas in the windows? I mean, some façades may have dozens of windows... how do you select each of them to "paint white" in a reflective map, for example?
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Old Posted Aug 9, 2014, 6:44 PM
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these are great renders of a greatly detailed city, please, don´t ruin the renders with that ugly ass effect you used in the above image


are you still using Sketchup? Looks too detailed to be Sketchup... are those building façades 3D or are they textures (with some 3D, but mostly being detail by textures)?
Thanks, but I actually like that effect I tried to make it look more like a drawing than a photo to hide some of those low-res textures and low-poly models. I will probably use it in the future too with these kind of close-up street level scenes.

I'm still using SketchUp. Building facades are mostly just textured, but for these kind of close-up shots I make more detailed versions of the buildings closest to the camera (with higher resolution textures). These more detailed versions are not saved with the main file.

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some of the best river water I have seen in modelling... how did you do it? Vellu, how much ram do you have? Are all those models with so many textures inside Sketchup? Or are you rendering several pieces of the city and joining it in post pro?

you said you get the building façades from Bing Maps... may be a foolish question, but how the hell do you map the reflective areas in the windows? I mean, some façades may have dozens of windows... how do you select each of them to "paint white" in a reflective map, for example?
That water material is actually straight out of a water material pack from the Kerkythea site. I guess it's mostly about the bump map settings, as the reflection and refraction settings are mostly the same for all water materials.

My computer isn't anything special. Five years old with 4 GB's of RAM. So far I've been able to render the city in one piece.

I make reflection maps mostly from textures that have a clear contrast between reflective and non-reflective surfaces. Then I just turn it to black and white image in PS and increase contrast. I most cases I also have to invert the colors.
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Your Wright Wellington Lobby is absolutely stunning. Your city is absolutely fantastic. The texturing is insanely great. You should be proud of this... Keep it growing!
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That water material is actually straight out of a water material pack from the Kerkythea site. I guess it's mostly about the bump map settings, as the reflection and refraction settings are mostly the same for all water materials.
can you please point me to it, Vellu? I use Thea Render, which is an evolution (and commercial) of Kerkythea. I guess I could use the same parameters...
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Old Posted Aug 14, 2014, 12:42 AM
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Keep up the good work!
The city looks great!
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can you please point me to it, Vellu? I use Thea Render, which is an evolution (and commercial) of Kerkythea. I guess I could use the same parameters...
I can no longer find it at the Kerkythea site, but I guess it's the water pack[1].mat here http://www.4shared.com/folder/j6zdri...sortsMode=NAME
I'm not sure which material I used for that specific render, but I guess it was the semi_calm material or the Grasy water material.

Here's a view from an apartment at the 14 West Van Buren:

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Well I like that avenue pic with its effect, it's also nice to see that the landscape is not flat.
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Old Posted Aug 19, 2014, 10:55 AM
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That would be an awesome apartment to live in!
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